[1] Preliminary design for a house, 1789, unexecuted

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  - Balmakewan House, Angus: designs for a house and stables for Thomas Gillies Esq, 1789, unexecuted (12)
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Reference number

SM Adam volume 1/99

Purpose

[1] Preliminary design for a house, 1789, unexecuted

Aspect

Upper: plan of a house comprising a central range with flanking wings and a porte-cochere to the front. The staircases are at the front of the house and flanking two rooms. To the rear are two apsidal-ended rooms within a bow Lower: principal floor plan showing a central range with flanking wings and a porte-cochere, with a stables on one side. There are two staircases set back from the front, flanking the entrance hall. Other rooms include a library, dining room and drawing room which was in a rear circular bow-ended room with a columned balcony. In the bottom left corner is another plan with two oval-shaped rooms in the rear bow-ended part of the house

Scale

to a scale

Inscribed

T-- Gillies Esqr sent at / Balmakewan in the County of / Angus ~ / Butler - / Library / Hall / Drawing room / Dining room with some room dimensions. (Verso) [_ _ _ _ _ _] Expense to Mr Wemys [_ _ _ _ _] with a floor plan and some calculations

Signed and dated

1789
datable to 1789

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (194x270)

Hand

Possibly
Adam office hand, possibly Robert Morison or Daniel Robertson

Watermark

T French

Literature

Bolton, 1922, p. 3
King, 2001, p. 121
Further literature references in scheme notes

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